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Harrisonburg

(Encyclopedia)Harrisonburg, city (2020 pop. 51,814), seat of Rockingham co., NW Va., in the Shenandoah Valley; settled 1739, inc. 1916. It is a processing center in a...

Gujranwalla

(Encyclopedia)Gujranwalla go͝ojˌränˈvälə [key], city, NE Pakistan. A road and rail hub, with linkage to Peshawar ...

graining

(Encyclopedia)graining, process of painting by which natural wood grain is imitated. It was common practice in the late 19th cent. to grain cheap, soft woods to give them the appearance of rare, expensive ones. A l...

Gardena

(Encyclopedia)Gardena gärdēˈnə [key], city (2020 pop. 61,027), Los Angeles co., SW Calif., an industrial ...

Gardner

(Encyclopedia)Gardner. <1> City (2020 pop. 23,287), Johnson co., NE Kans; founded 1857. A suburb of Kansas City, the town is located where the Santa Fe and ...

Meudon

(Encyclopedia)Meudon mödôNˈ [key], town (1990 pop. 46,173), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France, a suburb SW of Paris. Metal products, automobile bodies, and explosives are the chief manufactures. The astroph...

Moroni

(Encyclopedia)Moroni mōrōˈnē [key], town (1990 pop. 23,432), capital of Comoros, on Njazidja (formerly Grande Comore) island, at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, an arm of the Indian Ocean. Moroni is...

Oersted, Hans Christian

(Encyclopedia)Oersted or Ørsted, Hans Christian häns krĭsˈtyän örˈstĭᵺ [key], 1777–1851, Danish physicist and chemist. He was professor at Copenhagen from 1806. His discovery (1819) that a magnetic need...

Mandan, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Mandan mănˈdăn, –dən [key], city (1990 pop. 15,177), seat of Morton co., S N.Dak., on the Missouri River opposite Bismarck; inc. 1881. A railroad division point, it is the distribution center fo...

Meknès

(Encyclopedia)Meknès mĕknĕsˈ [key], city (1994 pop. 443,214), N central Morocco. It has a noted carpet-weaving industry. There are also woolen mills, cement and metal works, oil distilleries, and food-processin...